Dear Bungie, I am wondering why EVERY other gaming company avoids forced difficulty and you embrace it like a PFD on a sinking ship. Making the raid challenging is one thing, but making it so that people have anxiety attacks and quit because you made it difficult in the worst way possible, by reducing the light that we worked SO HARD to get to before you dropped the raid, and we could barely do any damage. I did not want to do the contest mode. I knew is would be a shit show like Deep Stone Crypt was. 1000's of players trying to figure out how to get DPS from our underlighted weapons. I was dead set against it. Reducing our light as you have done many times in the past is the shittiest, most unthought out way to make the raid more challenging. It this how you're going to do the Hard mode raids in the future? Skimp out on intelligence and reduce our light instead of being innovative and intelligent in the crafting of our gaming experience? So my friends and clan mates convinced me to help them out as I am an experienced raider and an original D1 player from Day 1. 45 min and we're stuck on the first encounter still and not making any progress because you released the raid without fixing the teleporting issues that you have, and the mobs were running all over the place making it impossible to kill them, that and getting one hit by everything despite 90+ resilience and EVERY mod that increases damage resistance. I did not want to have to basically do a flawless raid to get past the first mode. My anxiety peaked 45 min in and if my power hadn't suddenly gone out I probably would have quit out and walked away. This type of strategy has driven entire clans to quit this game and walk away never to return again. My former clan mates did not even come back to try out this raid because they knew it was going to be a debacle that they did not want to witness or participate in. I was excited for the raid until I heard the way it was dropping. Why could you not release the normal mode the same day for those of us who just wanted a fun experience and not a shit show of a raid contest? All my excitement faded in about 5 min into the contest mode as I realized that once again, regardless of grinding and grinding to get my light up to level I was not going to get a day one clear again because the contest mode was too hard for 95% of the player base. You have driven my friends list off to other games, you have driven my clan to Outsiders, Phasmophobia, GTA5 and anything other than Destiny and now I have no one to play with in a community style participation game. Matchmaking sucks as half the time I get new lighters that do not understand how to play the content yet. I have been driven away from this game, the ONLY game I play, twice int he past, if you push me out the next time I most likely will not return, as my play mate, clan mates and friends before me. Please return to the Destiny of old, become innovators again, make us enjoy your content, not look at it and sigh that we have to repeat the same shit 40 million times to advance. Please stop being lazy in trying to make things more challenging. Please stop being lazy about fixing the bugs that we keep reporting to you, and yet you release new content with the same shitty buggy mess to play, which is absolutely unenjoyable. I hope you listen to us, I hope you listen to the quiet majority who, like me, normally do not go this far to let you know how we feel. The loud minority should not control your gaming models.